Japan's Weekly Blu-ray & DVD Rankings for Jan 11 - 17

Kaioshin_Sama said:


Just over 230K. It's not going to be adding 5K a week anymore though and is finally starting to slow down in it's 5th week (by Love Live standards) but could still potentially get there by years end. As of now it's past the first Macross Frontier movie (Also by Bandai Visual coincidentally), but would need to add another 24K or so to pass the second one. In terms of standalone anime movies with no game tie-in package no other anime movie has done better on Blu-Ray at this point. To put it in perspective it had 20K more sales in it's first week than the Madoka Rebellion movie had by the time it stopped charting period BD/DVD combined and is now even above Unicorn Volume 7 for Bandai Visual which was the best selling anime package for 2014.

Actually I didn't realize it myself as others probably didn't because of their curiously low profile in the west, but since the decade has started Bandai/Sunrise has only missed having the best selling domestically originated anime BD/DVD package in Japan all of once in 2013 when the 3rd Evangelion movie came out on account of Gundam, Macross, Love Live and a few other things that seem to sell really well and they have a reasonable chance of doing it again in 2016 depending on what they choose to go with package wise for Love Live Sunshine and Macross Frontier and how well Kizumonogatari manages to do on disc.

jayvee2016 said:
Oh thank you for that.. well I believed they can reach 250K (y) As for the BD sales, I got some links that states that Love Live Movie is the 5th best selling BD Animation of Japan and 3rd if disney movies are not included. Evangelion is the top 1 and 2, is Macross Frontier a BD Animation too?

jayvee2016 said:
I got high hopes for aqours, I just wish they can maintain the hype of µ's or even better make it bigger than the original. The records of µ's are actually pretty extraordinary so I wish aqours luck!

moonnya said:
Oricon sales are usually 50%-60% real sales.

Onii-chan said:
As always, overwhelming BS sales presented by Love Live. Makes me wonder why its popularity lasts long.

Agafin said:
More like 70 to 80%. I doubt it's as low as you stated besides in exceptional cases.

*5.　*,690　*48,858　 Girls und Panzer: Kore ga Hontou no Anzio-sen desu!

moonnya said:

actually its around 60-70%
http://www.someanithing.com/167

moonnya said:

actually its around 60-70%
http://www.someanithing.com/167

Ejc said:


Yes it is the 5th best selling Animation BD: http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/34386/rank/blu-ray/. That's how high it'll go though, because 325K+ by the Big Hero 6 movie is just way out of reach.

Macross Frontier movies were originally released on DVD in 2010 and 2011, but the majority of its sales was from the PS3 game bundle. Macross Frontier is probably one of the pioneering anime franchises to start using multimedia tie-ins to boost sales significantly.



I think Aqours should be OK since their debut single just passed the Idolmaster Cinderella Girls OP, "Star!!" (which had an event ticket and BD Video/Audio all bundled) in sales as of this week, and it only recently just had an anime adaptation announced. The telling point will be how the second single sells with the anime now announced, the addition of Aqours into the successful mobile game, and all the Nico Nico Live and other promotional events that are planned for Aqours. I think the anime, the mobile game and the live concerts were the 3 corner stones needed by µ's to have achieved all of the records that they have now.

Cumulative sales / Weeks Charted / CD Title
65,760　*14　君のこころは輝いてるかい? (Aqours 1stシングル)
65,410　*19　Star!! (THE IDOLM@STER シンデレラガールズ OP)

Next milestone for Aqours is to pass the Idolmaster Million Live Theme Song, "Dreaming!" (which had Million Live 3rd live event ticket, Million Live Game serial code, and BD Animation from Day 1/2 of the Million Live 2nd live all bundled), which is at 67,428.